byword

byword通常被翻译为"典范、笑柄"的意思，作为名词时有"俗话"的意思，单词读音音标为['baiwә:d]，byword常被用作名词，以下是参考《剑桥高阶英语学习词典》等英语词典，byword相关的例句。

Byword的词典翻译

1.典范

例句:Just as Cadillac used to be synonymous with luxury and BMW with sportiness, Toyota was a byword for quality and reliability.

翻译:正如凯迪拉克曾经是豪华的代名词，宝马是运动风格的代名词，丰田曾是高质量和可靠性的代名词。

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2.笑柄

例句:Under Jobs, the company has gone from strength to strength, establishing itself as a byword for innovation and elegant design.

翻译:在乔布斯的领导下，苹果越来越强大，并确立了自己成为创新和高雅设计的代名词。

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3.俗话

例句:The industry became a byword for mendacity, secrecy and profligacy with taxpayers' money.

翻译:这个产业已经成为谎言、秘密以及浪费纳税人钱财的代名词。

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4.谚语、俗话

例句:George Rood, conscious that he need not exhibit a brilliancy which was almost a byword , opened his mouth only to put food into it .

翻译:乔治·娄德知道他的妙语惊人已经尽人皆知，用不着再施展才华，因此每次张口只不过是往嘴里添送菜肴。

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用法及短语示例

byword一般作为名词使用，在常见短语或俚语中出现较多。

英语例句

1. The industry became a byword for mendacity, secrecy and profligacy with taxpayers' money.

翻译:这个产业已经成为谎言、秘密以及浪费纳税人钱财的代名词。

2. George Rood, conscious that he need not exhibit a brilliancy which was almost a byword , opened his mouth only to put food into it .

翻译:乔治·娄德知道他的妙语惊人已经尽人皆知，用不着再施展才华，因此每次张口只不过是往嘴里添送菜肴。

3. He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime i was as a tabret.

翻译:神使我作了民中的笑谈。 他们也吐唾沫在我脸上。

4. it's a byword for "lazy," "slacker," for being somebody who gives up.

翻译:它是懒，懒虫的代名词， 是用来说那些做事容易放弃的人的。

5. it's a byword for "lazy," "slacker," for being somebody who gives up.

翻译:它是懒，懒虫的代名词， 是用来说那些做事容易放弃的人的。

6. Even more impressively, a region which had become a byword for financial instability mostly sailed through the recent recession.

翻译:更令人印象深刻的是一个曾经代表金融动荡的地区竟大致平稳度过了最近的经济衰退。

7. The industry became a byword for mendacity, secrecy and profligacy with taxpayers' money.

翻译:这个产业已经成为谎言、秘密以及浪费纳税人钱财的代名词。

8. Over almost a century and a half, Brooks England has grown from a small workshop to a byword in quality craftsmanship.

翻译:在近一个半世纪，布鲁克斯英国已经从一个小作坊到一个优质工艺的代名词。

9. God has made me a byword to everyone, a man in whose face people spit .

翻译:上帝使我作了民中的笑谈；他们也吐唾沫在我脸上。

10. it has become a byword for spiralling costs and delays.

翻译:它现在已经成了螺旋式上涨的造价和不断推迟的完工日期的代名词。

11. ONCE a byword for state-run inefficiency, Telstra is now famous instead for corporate belligerence and executive arrogance.

翻译:曾经作为国营低效的代名词，澳州电信现在以其好战和管理者傲慢而出名。

12. For when i view them in turn, whether it be our chief hostess herself, whose good heart, whose too good heart, has become a byword with all who know her,

翻译:因为当我一一想到她们时 我们好心的大厨 所有认识她的人 都对其善良赞不绝口。

13. The Praetorian Guard have become a byword for any military force which is used to prop up a ruthless regime.

翻译:罗马禁卫军，业已成为任何维持政权运作之无情军事机器的代名词。

14. it had become a byword for reckless lending , offering home loans of up to 125% and borrowing heavily on the international money markets.

翻译:银行发放高达125%的房贷，并在国际货币市场上大量举债，这一挤兑事件使该银行成为了不计后果发放借款的“代名词”。

15. Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.

翻译:你使我们在列邦中作了笑谈，使众民向我们摇头。

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